TY - GEN
T1 - A biochemical filter for frequency-based signal reception in molecular communication
AU - Laddomada, Massimiliano
AU - Pierobon, Massimiliano
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been partially supported by the Faculty Research Enhancement and Professional Development Grant from Texas AandM University-Texarkana, and by NSF through grant MCB-1449014.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Molecular Communication (MC) is a nanoscale interaction paradigm inspired by the natural ability of cells in biology to communicate through the processing, exchange, and transduction of information by biochemical reactions of molecules. The design and modeling of MC systems is the first step towards future applications based on the engineering of communication systems in biology. In this paper, a bandpass filter based on a specific type of biochemical reactions in cell communication, namely, signaling kinase cascade, is proposed for an MC receiver in a diffusion-based MC scenario. In particular, under the commonly accepted weak activation assumption, these biochemical reactions can be analytically modeled through linear systems theory. The characterization of the proposed filter, and the corresponding numerical results, demonstrate its passband properties, and its suitability for extracting signals in different frequency bands coming from different molecular transmitters.
AB - Molecular Communication (MC) is a nanoscale interaction paradigm inspired by the natural ability of cells in biology to communicate through the processing, exchange, and transduction of information by biochemical reactions of molecules. The design and modeling of MC systems is the first step towards future applications based on the engineering of communication systems in biology. In this paper, a bandpass filter based on a specific type of biochemical reactions in cell communication, namely, signaling kinase cascade, is proposed for an MC receiver in a diffusion-based MC scenario. In particular, under the commonly accepted weak activation assumption, these biochemical reactions can be analytically modeled through linear systems theory. The characterization of the proposed filter, and the corresponding numerical results, demonstrate its passband properties, and its suitability for extracting signals in different frequency bands coming from different molecular transmitters.
KW - Biochemical filter design
KW - Diffusion-based channel
KW - Molecular communication
KW - Nanonetworks
KW - Signal transduction network
KW - Signaling kinase cascade
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U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7417148
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7417148
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964862309
T3 - 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2015
BT - 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 58th IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2015
Y2 - 6 December 2015 through 10 December 2015
ER -